STAR: What is your opinion about social media,
its influence upon art and an artist?
MANASI.M: Social media is not so much help-
ful or encourage production as participation, and
its value is measured in the feedbacks of others
People post to receive instant feedback gratifi-
cation. But it depends on how they do that, like
commenting, making friends, sharing images of
artworks.It varies across platforms like Facebook
or Pinterest or Twitter or any other platform that
an artist is able to reach and the response to such
posts too consequently would go by statistics of
the responses by others.
While some artists and non-artists are interested in
influencing these flows of feedback, the feedback
mechanisms themselves can be aestheticised, ei-
ther by working with or against them.An artist or
art lover is completely at freedom to some extent
in expressing views on social media.It is always a
mixed response or feedback.Burr, I am glad
that through social media, I could connect to vari-
ous artists and connect to the Start’tists magazine.
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